Today in Pictures: May 18, 2012

Today in Pictures: May 18, 2012

A Thai woman lays inside a coffin at Wat Prommanee during a rebirth ceremony, May 18, 2012 in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand. The resurrection service follows an hour of prayer lead by Thai monks and then a person stepping into a coffin for a few minutes to arise reborn.

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Today in Pictures: May 18, 2012

A Thai woman lays inside a coffin at Wat Prommanee during a rebirth ceremony, May 18, 2012 in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand. The resurrection service follows an hour of prayer lead by Thai monks and then a person stepping into a coffin for a few minutes to arise reborn.

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Today in Pictures: May 18, 2012

Britain's Princess Anne holds the torch with the Olympic Flame during the handover ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2012 London Olympics at the Panathenaic stadium in Athens, May 17, 2012. The Olympic torch handover ceremony was held at the Panathenaic Stadium with Greece giving the flame to British officials ahead of the London 2012 Games. (Aris Messinis/AFP/GettyImages)

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A sign welcoming Facebook is flashed on a screen outside the NASDAQ stock exchange at Times Square in New York, May 18, 2012.

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A mother feeds her daughter with food provided by the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) at the Delpan Sports complex in Manila, May 18, 2012. Some 1300 families temporarily live at the sports complex after a huge fire engulfed a shanty town destroying homes on May 11.

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Guest workers from Central Asia try to protect themselves from stones thrown by radical youths in St.Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2012. The workers suffered the attack from a group of homophobes who had been trying to disrupt a gay rally in the city.

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Butchers use a crane to lift the carcass of a bull during a bullfight of the San Isidro's fair at the Las Ventas Bullring in Madrid, Spain, May 17, 2012. Bull's meat coming from bullfights is sold in markets to cook traditional Spanish dishes.

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Women dressed as white egret birds take part in the Shirasagi-jinji and perform a dance called Shirasagi-no-mai (the egret's dance), as they enter the grounds of Senso-ji Temple, during the Sanja Festival, in Asakusa district, May 18, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. The procession takes place on the first of three days of the Sanja festival.

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Pakistani homeless sit at the outskirt of Islamabad, May 18, 2012. Pakistan has faced persistent economic concerns amid a shaky supply of electricity, a weak revenue base, high external debt and security concerns that have scared off some foreign investors.

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Demonstrators conduct a die-in covered in oil as they protest against the Keystone Pipline and the Alberta Tar Sands in Chicago, Illinois, May 17, 2012 ahead of the NATO 2012 Summit. After a decade in Afghanistan, NATO leaders gather for a key summit May 20, 2012, hoping for a show of unity in the final two years of combat -- even though allies are eager to bring troops home.

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Opposition activists rally during an anti-Putin "occupy" sit-in protest at their new camp under a famous Stalin-era skyscraper in Moscow, late May 17, 2012. Russians unhappy with Vladimir Putin's presidential return after a four-year stint as prime minister have been increasingly turning to creative forms of protest that slip through legal loopholes and do not require formal city sanction.

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Riot policemen stay in front of a fixed Guy Fawkes mask at the fountain figure of Justice Fountain during the Blockupy protests, May 17, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. Organizers have called on tens of thousands of activists to take part in four days of protests aimed at occupying the central Frankfurt financial district and calling for an end to austerity measures on debt-ridden European nations.

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Sweden Anna Lindberg dives during the women's 1m springboard preliminary of the 31st LEN European Swimming Championships, May 18, 2012 in Eindhoven.

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The sun rises as a rider heads to a morning workout at Pimlico Race Course, May 18, 2012, in Baltimore. The Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday at Pimlico.